To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

When a family film is done well, there’s a character that every member of the audience can relate to. I want to be one of those guys.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Character is power.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

Of two evils, choose neither.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.